We've seen some interesting devices coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the small Ubuntu-powered Qbo robot is just one them. Linux fans already kind of knew what to expected to see in Barcelona. Many Ubuntu fans were looking to check out the first Meizu MX4 Ubuntu... Read more...

Did you hear the one about the Chinese telecom giant that tried to turn into a hip watchmaker? That’s been one of the more surprising stories to come out of this year’s Mobile World Congress. Huawei, a colossal company that makes most of its money on networking equipment and infrastructure,... Read more...

Ubuntu MATE has been providing PowerPC support for some time now, but the developers have made some serious improvements to this particular feature in the latest 15.04 Beta 1 update. The Ubuntu MATE devs had quite a changelog for the 15.04 Beta 1 release, and most of the stuff they... Read more...

Valve confirms that its next games, not to mention the SteamOS operating system will use the Vulkan API, the next-generation OpenGL iteration made by the Khronos consortium of companies, which includes not only Valve but also Nvidia, AMD, and much more. Valve mentioned a few weeks ago that it's going... Read more...

It would seem that PC gaming is not only alive and kicking, but that it's set to continue its solid growth over the course of the next few years. The projection comes from game business analysis group Open Gaming Alliance, who claims that the PC gaming industry is set to... Read more...

BPF continues marching forward as a universal, in-kernel virtual machine for the Linux kernel. The Berkeley Packet Filter was originally designed for network packet filtering but has since been extended as eBPF to support other non-network subsystems via the bpf syscall. Here's some more details on this in-kernel virtual machine... Read more...

Clusters FOR DUMMIES is an excellent read for both experienced and novice administrators, users, purchasing departments, and developers who are considering purchasing or specifying a cluster. Read more...